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What The Owl Said To Me.

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The moon went under a ragged cloud,         The owl cried out of the ruined wall,     Slow and solemn, distinct and loud,         His melancholy call:     Tu-whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo!     Like a creature in a shroud.     Across the night in a silver chain,         While a lonesome wind arose and died,     Slow stepped the ghostly feet of the rain;         The owl from the wall replied:     Tu-whit, tu-whoo, hoo-hoo'         With a peal of goblin laughter,         And silence fell thereafter.     Weird fingers of the wandering rain,         Reaching out of the hollow dark,     Paused and tapped at my window-pane,--         A muffled voice cried, Hark!     Tu-whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo!         The moon is drowned in the dark,     And the world belongs to me and you!

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